"The men's families were not told where they had been taken, or why. ... State media reports claimed on 18 December that the National Security Department within the Ministry of Interior had arrested the three Morsi aides transferred on 17 December at a flat in Heliopolis, Cairo, and sent them to the Supreme State Security Prosecutor’s Office for questioning. However, the reports conflict markedly with the fact that the three men have actually been held incommunicado since 3 July. The three men risk facing trumped-up charges, after being held incommunicado for more than five months."

On July 3, 2013, the Egyptian military forcibly and illegally detained Khaled Al-Qazzaz, a Canadian-educated mechanical engineer, human rights activist and former school principal. His Toronto-born wife, Sarah Attia, has been raising awareness about his situation with the hopes of bringing him back home to her and their four children.